The Digital Rebar Project is a container-ready hardware provisioning platform that delivers the best of software deployment automation and orchestration without locking you into a single hardware platform or operating system. Our mission is to embrace the heterogenous nature of data center operations.
While it's been completly rebuilt by DevOps artisans, Digital Rebar history includes years of battle-tested ops learnings by the Crowbar Project founders.
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- Mailing List
- Live Chat (Gitter.im)
- Issues and Roadmap
#digitalrebarIRC channel on Freenode (hint: Gitter.im is more active).
The principal motivation for creation of Digital Rebar is the transition a from bare metal installer into a tool that manages ongoing operations. Digital Rebar enables upgrade and continuous deployment automation. This capability is important for large scale deployments of evolving complex projects like OpenStack, Hadoop, and Ceph.
Digital Rebar provides the foundation for operations automation. Digital Rebar is an open reference implementation that can be reliably deployed in large-scale, multi-site datacenters. This effectively productizes best practices in a way that allows creation of consistent and discoverable operating environments. Users benefit with fast time-to-value and we benefit by having consistent installations across the ecosystem.
Digital Rebar reduces the cost of datacenter hardware infrastructure preparation. The immediate benefits of Digital Rebar are realized in the deployment of complex compute and storage clusters. Digital Rebar reduces the human resource cost of getting compute platform systems into productive use, automates continuous hardware redeployment, automates hypervisor, operating systems, and application layer software installation and management. All of these add up to significant gains in operational reliability, consistency, and concomitant reduction in defects handling costs.